thunderationn.
/θʌndəˈreɪʃən/ slang (originally and chiefly U.S.)
Used as a vague expletive or intensive: cf. thunder n. 4.
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1836 Crockett's Yaller Flower Almanac 21 I don't know as I can say he was so all darned thunderation fat.
1845 W. T. Thompson Major Jones' Chron. Pineville 181 I'll blow 'em all to everlastin' thunderation.
1887 Cent. Mag. Nov. 44/2 Everybody wants to know who in thunderation Rache will marry.
1901 Munsey's Mag. 24 792/2 ‘I like you all to thunderation..’, he said earnestly, dropping all reserve, ‘but [etc.]’.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 245 Bing. Bong. Bangbong. Thunderation!
1949 Sat. Evening Post 9 July 86/2 Why in thunderation does he have to play such a hay-in-the-hair?
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